The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10
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New YORK, March S.-A fire oc-
store of 'iNicoll, the tailor in the
Bowery and the establishment was de-
stroyed. Trains on the elevated rail-
road were blocked by the flames. The
blockade occurred all the way down to
South Ferry on the down track and up to
Seventeenth street. y number of pas
Sengers left one of the trains at Seven
teenth street and started to walk along
the narrow foot path at the side of the
track to the station at Fourteenth
street. While doing so the blockade
was relieved and the trains began to
start. Their motion shook the path
way to such an extent that a number
of the passengers were thrown down
to the street below. Three of these
were instantly killed and seven others
badly injured.
A PANIC on THE ELEVATOR.
When the O'Clock train came to a
standstill between Fourteenth and
seventeenth streets, "A man named Pat
rick Matthews of All East Twenty
fourth street. who was standing on the
platform of the third car, opened the
gate and got out on narrow platform
and started to walk to the Fourteenth
street station and was followed by a
number of men who were anxious to
get to work. When within fifteen feet
of the stallion the train started and
Matthews WAS panic-Stricken, and
SuppOsing that he was going to fall off
the platform To the street below,
clutched hold of a man who was stand
ing beside him and they both
fell to the ground and
were instantly killed. Other men
became panic stricken and jumped in
to the street. The greatest excite
ment prevailed and spread among the
passengers and it was as much as the
train hands could do to keep them in
from the train. Women i'll the cars
screamed and tainted. At last the
train was brough to station and most
of the passengers got off and took the
surface cars down town.. The distance
which the men fell was about thirty
feet. The dying and wounded were
taken Immediately in ambulances to
the New York. Bellevue and st. Vim
cents hospitals. Hundreds Of peo-
pie gathered around the scene of the
accident. Captain Clinchey was
on hand with squad of
twelve men and kept the crowd back.
The sidewalk and street was covered
with blood. The killed were Patrick
Mathews, an unknown man about fifty
years of age, and another man, also
unknown. The wounded are: George
Mccartney, injured in the hip and
back; Robert Shoemaker, back and
legs; William Kennedy, back and side:
James Lyon, arm, back and head; Jose
Gradandin, back and ribs; unknown,
general confusion; Emil Weller, head,
back and side.
CHARGED TO A CARELESS GATEMAN.
The narrow platform from which the
peuple fell was about two and a half
feet wide. When the passengers left
the blockaded cars and took to the plat
form the gateman of the train offered
no objection, as he should have done.
The long cortege of men was picking
its way slowly along when suddenly
the train started up and began to move,
shaking the track with a conVulSiYe
movement that nearly shook the fore
most man off his feet and shrinking
back in fright from the moving wheels
he crowded against the man behind
him, on the very edge of the narrow
walk; the man clutched wildly at his
life the latter drew back, but
the crowd behind was pressing ON the
train which was moving on the right.
Those further behind saw Il momentary
punching of the crowd in front and
then one, two, and then half dozen
were seen falling over the edge into the
street below, sfrom which arose a
| frightened wall that turned into
shrieks of terror and despair as man
after man struck the pavement and lay
mangled and bleeding. The men had
| fallen in the middle of the street OF
the surface car track in CHASTITY heap
where they lay, some mOtionless, some
| groaning family, and one shriekinl
wildly with pain. The terrorizeC
crowd of thousands who had watched
the blockade from below surged around
and closed in upon the scene. While
volunteers were sorting out the heap OF
those fallen, and the policemen were
keeping back the crowd, the ambu
lances arrived and surgeons turned il
to render immediate and pressing ais
| and the ambulances received loaC
and galloped back to the hospital. Tel
had fallen from the track all told, tina
is ten were found dead or injured, anC
three at the bottom of the heap wer'
dead. They had fell head first and ha'
smashed in their skulls 4 wagon wa
called and they were taken to tn
morgue. Several of them were NOR
or less desperately injured and som,
will die.